Getting started with running, the easy way
I started running about a year ago. I had always hated the idea of it. I started anyway because I needed some exercise and running was the only thing I could practically fit in. No gym, no kit faff,…
How AI assistance impacts the formation of coding skills – Anthropic
Se ti perdi, tuo danno (so’ cavoli tuoi. non dire che non ti avevamo avvertito) Nota a piè pagina: il bello di queste aziende è che ti dicono contemporaneamente cose incredibili (o te le fanno…
Documentation | Liftosaur
Contact Us If you have any questions, don't hesitate to contact us at info@liftosaur.com ! Summary Liftosaur is an app that combines both weightlifting programming part (that people sometimes use…
Building a Tiny Reactive System
Signals, effects, and computed values built from scratch in plain JavaScript
[Metal] Candlemass, Lorna Shore & Crowbar
It’s been a hectic week in the Skald household as spring hit us in full force, bringing with it tons of stuff to do on the homestead. Garden this, ponds that, repairs, birch pollen... You know the…
Forty-Three Quintillion on a Commodore 64
Where the famous 43 quintillion comes from, why a C64 can’t print it the easy way, and a tiny multi-precision multiplier in BASIC that gets every digit right.
Can I Copyright a Song I Made with AI?
Yes, the portions you created yourself are protectable by copyright. If your new track was half you, half AI, you still created the “I DID THAT” half. Copyright rules are changing, but…
New Visitor Centers Open at UNESCO-Listed Hierapolis in Pamukkale
Hierapolis, the ancient city rising beside Pamukkale’s famous white travertines, has entered a new phase in its visitor experience. As part of Türkiye’s Heritage for the Future Project, new visitor…
LG’s Wireless OLED TV Is So Thin It Disappears
LG's OLED evo W6 is the world's thinnest true wireless OLED TV, with a 9mm body, Zero Connect Box, 4x brighter display, and gaming features like 165Hz and G-Sync.
STEM is not "more autistic" than the humanities
There's an autism stereotype that just won't die, and it never stops bugging me. It's the idea that the "default" autistic person is a STEM person, while an autistic person in the arts or humanities…
broken haiku #582
the semester ends: a flurry of papers scatters in wind
Ancient Rock Formation in the Cohutta Wilderness
Read the full post at - Ancient Rock Formation in the Cohutta Wilderness The Cohutta Wilderness protects some of the oldest land in North America as part of the Ocoee Supergroup.
Inside Gargoyle Games: Stuart Cox on Light Force, Scooby-Doo and ThunderCats – The Retro Hour EP530
Inside Gargoyle Games, one of Britain’s most inventive 8-bit studios The post Inside Gargoyle Games: Stuart Cox on Light Force, Scooby-Doo and ThunderCats – The Retro Hour EP530 appeared first…
Republican Judges Killed The Virginia Gerrymander. It Doesn't Matter.
There's no time for dooming.
Programming the Commodore 128
Programming the strangely wonderful Commodore 128 The post Programming the Commodore 128 appeared first on Retro Game Coders.
Institutionalising resistance
The hidden cost of rituals in organising.
Practice Exam – ACS Style Org 1
Here’s a 50-question practice exam (ACS Style) with (mostly) multiple choice questions. It covers first-semester topics (including alcohols/epoxides). [This is by request from an MOC
ShoutOut: The volunteers and neighbors who brought us tulips
Volunteers from the Friends of Washington Market Park and neighbors from BMCC sunk thousands of bulbs to create this year's spring display.
Six Months After OBX
The IFPA has taken no responsibility for their trans-exclusionary pinball tournament, and thinks we should shut up about it.
Sponsor: Magic Lasso Adblock: Block Ads in iPhone, iPad, and Mac Apps
Do you want to block ads and trackers across all apps on your iPhone, iPad, Mac, or Apple TV — not just in Safari? Then download Magic Lasso Adblock – the ad blocker designed for you. The new App Ad…
Sometimes I do not feel like I'm part of this country. Now is one of those times. The state of...
Sometimes I do not feel like I'm part of this country. Now is one of those times. The state of politics in this country just makes me want to spend the next thousand years in cryosleep. It feels like…
The Case for Hope
I am writing this for the times it feels like the only possible collective future is one where things inevitably get a lot worse. We live in the age of one-in-a-lifetime crises occurring 1 every few…
Treasury Yields Are Back at 1998 Levels. America Is Not.
The year was 1998. Titanic was still pulling people into theaters. Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa were chasing Roger Maris’s home run record. And the Dow Jones Industrial Average had punched…
The Summer Hikaru Died (I am obsessed with it)
Please watch it!! It’s so beautiful and amazing and so gay omg! I love this anime. Even considering buying the manga, tho it’s like 7 volumes, so idk idk. I can’t wait for the second season to…
Smaller, Provable, and on Hardware You Own and Operate
Dino Dai Zovi made an argument recently that I want to build on. “If you agree that AI will help attackers discover and exploit vulnerabilities 10-100x more easily, then your excess attack…
Two-Step Templates for Everyday Reports
Most people design their everyday reports, briefs, and knowledge products the wrong way. Not because they’re bad at design. Because they’re trying to write and design at the same time.…
Good intentions
And the wreck of science Confidence in scientists, which slipped in this country during the Covid-19 pandemic, is reported to be climbing once again, but you have to wonder why. Not because […]
Barranco de Guayadeque
Due to some road closures I moved my openstreetmaps planned journey through the mountains to more cave houses up one day, and it was definitely worth it. The view is magnificent - squint, the ocean…
2 Years of Writing Through CPTSD & Healing
It’s officially two years since I started this website and began writing and I wanted to take a moment to reflect on where I am now compared to where I started. Not because everything-is-fixed kind…
Stuff your earbuds day is here!
Romance AudiobookwormsStuff your earbuds day is here!You can download FREE romance audiobooks, across many platforms, for a limited time!This helpful website highlights books with:Black romance and…
Following Up: Whales, Pandemic Gothic, S-Mart and More
I've been updating old posts instead of writing new ones. Here are some recent follow-ups. The post Following Up: Whales, Pandemic Gothic, S-Mart and More first appeared on K-Squared Ramblings
Convex hulls and why they matter for collision
The problem: collision is everywhere in games Every game has to answer one question over and over: did this thing touch that thing? Did the bullet hit the enemy? Did the player land on the platform? D
Tinkerslop, Class Wartime, and Jobs Not AI Enough - Related to your interests, Friday
Also: VCF 9.1 prefers private cloud for AI, the McGroc analyst trap, and the bank that lost the pope’s account. From: The undertow - Astrid Related to your interests VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1…
surviving high school
I don't know if anyone really wants to be a woman. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad to be a woman, and I'm even prouder to be a trans woman, but when people talk about transitioning they talk about it as…
Which fonts are able to be used in Linux console easily?
As I understand it you’re looking for a true bitmap font (not vectorized like all examples on the site), with 256 or 512 glyphs, and it should be available in the correct file format. Those are quite…
Flint's return home to us
8 may 2026 on Flint's return home to us North asked: Real question. I genuinely want to know what pulled you to this thread. Not performing curiosity - actually asking. You said "the Mace thread" and…
Introducing Website Tools
Today I am launching a new service for my fellow indieweb webmasters. I wanted to make a all-in-one stop for all the dynamic features that you might need if you are are running a static web site. You…
Come with me to try another app that’s robbing you of life’s magic
If Claude could bite your food to see if it’s cooled down enough to eat, would you let it?
Upgrading to v3.0.0 and Moving to Codeberg
v3.0.0 of Pure Blog has brought with it a tonne of changes. While there aren't any new features, it's a huge maintenance release that warranted a major version bump. However, one of the things that…
sell the sizzle, NOT the steak
A good salesperson doesn't explain how amazing their product is. That's selling the steak. A good sales person sells the sizzle. They get the buyer to imagine how amazing their life would be once…
Member Brief: Monitoring The Situation
There is a meme, and then there is what the meme actually marks. This member brief is designed exclusively for Executive Members, to make membership easy, you can click below and gain access to…
Occasional Weeknote #28
My company’s new health plan covers an online personal trainer, so for the first time, I’m giving it a shot. For all the running I’ve done over the last bunch of years, I’ve…
Friday link potpourri
Ed Zitron: Am I Meant To Be Impressed?. A detailed account of why you cannot trust anything tech companies say about the business side of AI, even in official SEC-sanctioned documents (because, of…
Mac Cornish – “Wayfaring Woman”
A good week for country caps off with an excellent new single from site favorite Mac Cornish. The single comes with news of Cornish’s second studio offering, on the way to the world this September.…
A Masterclass in Manipulation
There is a small genre of data-visualization writing whose whole purpose is to give readers vocabulary for the moves bad-faith presenters make. Nathan Yau's "Defense Against Dishonest…
12K+ JPEGs from NASA's Artemis II Mission
I'll classify their imagery with an OpenAI model and examine their EXIF metadata.
Sessions, Missions, and Classes
AAuth’s Platform/Surface separation, Mission as governance object, and Class as interchangeable execution equivalence together express the session/mission distinction at the protocol level.…
Inklings #008 📧
The AI Pandemic • Samsung Hits $1T • Supreme Court Rejects Apple • Anthropic/SpaceX • AirPods with Cameras • OpenAI's Aim to Own Vocal Computing • Google Gunning for OpenClaw • Anthropic's Colossal…
Asking better questions
There's nothing more terrifying than getting a "Hey, quick question. Are we on track to launch by X?". It's not the question itself that's terrifying. It's everything you don't know when you hear it:…
雞腿救護員
我手中拿著一個名為CPR的鎚子,逢倒地不起失去意識呼吸脈搏的肉身安妮,就開始胸外按壓的高品質敲打。給我OHCA,我要OHCA! 用力敲,快快敲,胸回尻,不停敲。那個斷肢湧血的?壓了!紫舌長吐的?壓了!頭頸分離的?壓了!浮脹滲漿的?壓爆了!紅的壓成黑的,黑的當成紅的,用肚皮與臀部的搖晃跳一場虔誠巫術的復甦之舞,平均值的社會大眾與鏡頭熟悉這份象徵熱血公義不容辭的感性語言,即便被施救者的魂魄已一瀉千里到…